FIG. 3.

Validation and performance of the derived model with experimental data. The derived model was obtained from Equations 6–18. The experimental data were from 10 healthy individuals in the age range of 25–30 years, whose blood was centrifuged at 100 g for 600 sec. (a) Recovery efficiencies of platelets. (b) Recovery efficiencies of plasma. (c) Performance of the model in terms of the platelet concentrations before and after centrifugation. The solid line represents the experimental average of the platelets; the dashed line depicts the platelet concentrations predicted by the model; and the grey zone is the dispersion of the experimental data.